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T. G. UHARLESWURTH.

APPARATUS FOR DYEING BANKS 0F WOL.

No. 315,910. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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T. G. GHARLESWORTH. APPARATUS POR DYEING BANKS 0F Wool.. No. 315,910.Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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THOMAS GlLLOTT CHARLESWOR-TH, OF LECESTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR DMYEING HANKS OF WOOL.

SPEGIFICATIOBT forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,910, dated April14, 1885.

Application tiled August 26, 1854. (No model.)

.To @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, Trroims GILLo'rT CHARLnswonrn, a subject of theQueen of England, residing at Leicester, England, dyer, have invented anew and useful Improved Method or Process and Apparatus for Printing orDyeing Hanks of Wool, Cotton, and Silk, and the like, whereof thefollowing is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a general perspective Viewofthe machine for carrying myinvention into practice, the feedingchains,Soc., being removed. Fig. 2 is a front view of the machine, partly insection, and Fig. 3 is a sectional side view.

A A are any suitable standards or frame work. B is a trough orequivalent, in which revolves the divided roll or series of rolls C,fixed upon the shaft D, driven by the pulley D or in other convenientmanner. Upon the other end of shaft D is a gear-wheel, D2, meshing withanother wheel, E', upon shaft E, which is revolved at the same rate asD, but inthe opposite direction. Gear-wheels may be placed upon bothends of the shafts, if desired.

Upon shaft E is another divided roll or series of rolls, F,corresponding with that upon shaft D, and suitable mechanism-such as thescrews (nl-may be employed for the purpose of regulating the pressureupon the rolls or for liftingthe upper set. The spaces H between therolls may be of any required breadth and depth, and where diiierentcolors are being used the trough is divided into independent sections bydivisions (not shown in the drawings) which pass up into the spaces Hbetween the lower rolls, orl separate troughs may be used. If only onecolor is being used," these divisions are not required. The rolls arebest covered with felt or similar soft absorbent material, and the twosets are generally in contact. The trough B contains the liquid colormixed with gum or size, &c., in the usual manner to make it adhere tothe material to be dyed or printed, each division of the trough havingits separate color, unless one color only is being used. There may be asmany rolls upon each shaft and correspond ing divisions in the trough asmaybe required, though only three are shown in the drawings.

The method of feeding the hanks to the rolls will be understood byreference to Figs. 2and8. pulleys L at front and back of the machine.These chains pass clear of the ends of the rolls, the line of traverseof the upper section of the chain coinciding, or nearly so, with thepoint of contact of the two sets of rolls, as shown. These chains Kcarry hooks M upon the edges facing the rolls, and the hanlrs (whichareleft out of the drawings for the sake of clearness) are hooked uponthem so that they are fed sidewise to the rolls. The hanlzs are placedupon the hooks at the front of the machine and removed at the back afterpassing once through the rolls.

Motion is given to the chains in any suitable manner, as by thechain-wheel N, round which a corresponding chain-wheel upon the baclrchain-wheel shaft, O, a third endless chain, passes.

For supplying the top rolls with color a supplemental rod, P, isprovided, touching rolls F and revolved by toothed wheel fixed on theend of shaft/,and meshing with wheel on shaft E, and dipping into acolor-trough, R. This roll P is divided to correspond with F, and thetrough R is also divided into sections for the different colors.

S is a hand-wheel connected, by ashaft with bevel-wheels, to two rightand left handed screw-shafts, one in front and one on back of rollers Fand C, for opening or closing the two endless chains to suit any lengthof hanlrs, as they Vary according to quality.

The operation is as follows: The haul; of wool or other material is fedbetween the rolls, as above described. In passing through the rolls thehaul; is dyed or printed, the portion between each pair of rolls C Ftaking the particular color contained in that portion of thc trough intowhich that rollC dips. Thus any number of different colors equal to thenumber of rolls upon shaft D may be simultaneouslyimparted to thehanlgthe spaces H leaving that portion of the haul( which opposes themundyed, with very pretty effect among the bright colors, the width ofthese being regulated by the width of the spaces H. Before entering themachine the hank is lirst carefully combed, so as to separate eachthread from its fellows and facilitate the dyeing pro- The endlesschains K pass over chain- L 3. The combination, with the divided rolls FC and divided trough B, of the endless traveling chains K, having ontheir inner or opposing edges the hooks M, on which the wool issuspended and fed sidewise to the rolls, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses. i

THOMAS GILLOTT CHARLESWORTH.

Witnesses:

WM. HARPER REEvE,

Sol., Leicester. H. RICHARD BROWN. Leicester', Gentleman.

